Taiwan: China has deployed missiles in South China Sea

Feb 20, 2016, 15:58

China, Taiwan and Vietnam all lay claim to strategically valuable Woody Island.

"There is every evidence, every day that there has been an increase of militarization of one kind or another", Kerry told reporters when asked about the reported deployment.

An editorial published yesterday in the Global Times said that the USA has "injected the most military elements in the region".

And it's doing nothing...to make the situation there more stable and more secure. "In fact, it's having quite the opposite effect", Kirby said.

Citing China's strong economy as a motive, it added: "The hyping by certain western media is a pure repeat of the "China threat" theory".

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called on all claimants to practice a policy of "no militarization" in the waters, noting that Chinese President Xi Jinping's had said during a visit previous year to Washington that China would not militarize the South China Sea.

The Chinese defence ministry did not deny or confirm the reports to Sky News, saying only that China has "legitimate rights to deploy protection facilities in the territory".

China's foreign minister has dismissed reports that it has deployed an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea.

He defended "the limited and necessary self-defence facilities" on islands inhabited by Chinese personnel as "consistent with the right for self-preservation and self-protection... under the worldwide law".

Australia and NZ have called for a lowering of tensions over the South China Sea dispute.

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China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including small islands that are hundreds of kilometres from its southern coast.

To press its claim, China has been aggressively creating islands from reefs and sandbanks across the waterways and building harbours for naval vessels and runways capable of receiving military aircraft.

He was responding to a question about reports that China has deployed positioned anti-aircraft missiles on a disputed South China Sea island in what analysts are describing as significant military escalation.

Art Harun is stumped how government obsessed over halal issue instead of attending to China's build-up of surface-to-air missiles in the South China Sea.

The South China Sea, bordered by China and a number of Southeast Asian nations, including the Philippines, has been the center of rising tensions since Beijing began expanding its foothold in the region a year ago.

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The United States also has conducted sea and air patrols near artificial islands that China has built in the Spratly islands chain farther south in the South China Sea, including by two B-52 strategic bombers in November.

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